Sunday, November 13, 2005

Is Turing's Intuition Pump Broken?

Google is getting to be amazingly effective at answering questions, and that fact makes me think the best response to the Turing test may simply be to deny that we would intuitively think that the reasonable responses coming back over the teletype must be produced by a thinking thing. I mean, Google's effectiveness is often incredible, but I'm not inclined, at all, to think it's intelligent, conscious, or whatever.

1 Comments:

Blogger Professor Batty said...

...I like the fact that a Google response can be off-base and imprecise- that may not be artifical intelligence, but it is very similar to a human's...

8:24 AM  

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